Quote from: Davidvictorson on August 09, 2024, 08:54:01 PM

On Jul 30th, I received this email below. I did't know about it until I checked my spam folder.

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Unit 2 Tolpits Lane Watford,
WD18 9RN United Kingdom

Attention: Beneficiary.

You have been approved to receive a compensation fund of £ 500,000.00 British Pound as one of the scam victims who qualified for the 2024 annual program organized by Camelot National Lottery Group United Kingdom. Your reference numbers are: XVX189298. Send your full name and address, reference number, mobile number, occupation, age. to the following email address: onwardfen1965@yandex.com

Faithfully,
Mr. Andrew Caswell
Gambling Commission Chief Executive

As I was about to delete it, I realized that throughout my years of gambling, I've noticed that online casinos are much more secure compared to lotteries, you almost never receive scam emails like this one from an online casino. That's been my personal experience. Has anyone had a different experience, particularly with online crypto casinos?

Scammers bank a lot on the greed of their victims. They often make offers too good to be true.
While I was reading the mail, I had no idea it was a scam mail till I got the the part where they said the compensation was "500.00" British pounds. That's half a million pounds. Who pays half a million pounds to a bunch of people as compensation for something like this? The thing is, they have to make the money worth it so it will be enticing.

Then there are the red flags. What do they need all that information for if the person has already qualified for that money? Why not just pay it into the casino/lottery account of the beneficiary? They also ask you to send your details to a particular person. Scammers may come in different forms but once you're not greedy and security conscious you'll always sniff it out.